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[EverydayBeast]

"Considering the age of the Dreamcast, it seems a pretty weird decision to launch a port of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, but to be honest, if this game launched on a calculator...we'd play it! The Dreamcast might be old, but the hardware is more powerful than the original N64, so ports of old Nintendo games are seeing a recent resurgence on Sega's white box. A new version of Ocarina of Time is always welcome, and it might be time to search the attic for a dusty old Dreamcast!"

I remember playing the N64 version growing up, to me Ocarina of time is the #1 Zelda, and than every other Zelda, you can choose your second, third, forth best Zelda plus it spawned a sequel "Majora's Mask" and it's funny the Zelda format today owes credit to this game, yeah me too I had no idea a Dreamcast port was in the making.

 

[Alexios]

I mean, Dreamcast even got GTAIII (as the latest & greatest fan effort, even the oldest/clunkiest official games like Blue Stinger & Incoming show it's beyond what any previous generation systems could do graphically or technically, from polycounts and effects to lighting and shadows, effects, logic, image quality and everything else) so of course it can do every N64 game, if someone skilled devotes in porting one (after a decomp makes it somewhat more viable). It's in active dev & improves a lot daily though so some of the footage is not very representative of it (just like early purple GTAIII 3 fps vids).​

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[DownLikeBCPowder]

Looks quite nice.

 

[ResilientBanana]

Hell yeah, but Link to the Past is tied with OoT. Too many nostalgic sounds and songs were in that one.

 

[Drell]

dreamcast and OOT were both released in november of 98. A port makes some kind of sense. But the dreamcast is a powerhouse next to the N64. The 3DS version in 480p would be cool to see if only we had the sources for this version.

 

[ComputerBlue]

It's also on Vita

 

[Werewolf Jones]

It's also on Vita

Might have to check this one out.

 

[DreamcastSkies]

The character models in Skies of Arcadia always reminded me of what I'd imagine an OOT-like game looking like on the Dreamcast.

 

[nkarafo]

Porting games from a weaker console to a more powerful one isn't nearly as interesting to me as the reverse. Because it's only a challenge for the developer, not for the system.

I would like to see more projects like GTA 3 on DC because that's also a challenge for the system. It's more exciting seeing a console being squeezed to run games people thought would be too difficult to handle or downright impossible.

 

[cireza]

In before some expert tells us that the Dreamcast can't make fog.

 

[Calverz]

Yea it's early days but coming along good. I was recently playing Mario kart 64 and star fox 64 ports in Dreamcast. Felt like retail releases. Just another cool way to replay these games.

 

[Moses85]

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

Sega fans will really go to any length to make the Dreamcast a thing again.

Joking apart, I love this stuff.